Christmas under full lockdown? Michael Gove reveals four-week November shutdown could be EXTENDED if it fails to tackle Covid second wave – and warns that without Boris Johnson’s move the NHS would be ‘full’ by next month
- Covid Quad committee, which has taken all the key strategic decisions, met in the Cabinet Office on Friday amid doomsday predictions from the Government’s SAGE committee of scientific advisers
- PM fought ‘valiant battle’ to keep the country open, ‘arguing with himself’ and endorsing many of his Chancellor’s hawkish warnings about the economic carnage it would entail
- Scientists, Matt Hancock and Michael Gove warned that the Covid-19 death rate will be worse than in April
- Quad heard that at the current rate of infections, hospitals would soon be overrun in every part of England, with the death toll hitting between 3,000 and 4,000 a day by Christmas
David Wilcock, Glen Owen and Anna Mikhailova – Daily Mail Nov 1, 2020
England could spend Christmas under a full lockdown if the four-week November shutdown fails to tackle the second wave of coronavirus sweeping the nation, Michael Gove suggested today.
The Cabinet Office Minister raised the spectre of a gloomy December with pubs, restaurants and non-essential shops closed if the R rate does not fall enough, despite the closure being designed to help save the festive period.
Appearing on television this morning he defended Boris Johnson’s decision last night to plunge England into a full lockdown, despite previously calling it the ‘nuclear option’.
He said that expert information showed that without it, the NHS nationally would be ‘full’ by the first week of December, affecting not only Covid patients but all critically ill cases.
Appearing on Sophy Ridge on Sunday on Sky News he said that over November the Government would review the data, adding that he hoped the reinfection rate would be ‘significantly reduced’ by December 2.
But asked if the national lockdown could be extended, he replied: ‘Yes.’
He said: ‘We want to be in a position where we can – and I believe that this is likely to be the case – have an approach where if we bring down the rate of infection sufficiently we can reduce measures nationally and also reduce measures regionally.
‘Because the regional approach is one that, wherever possible, we want to take because again we recognise it may be the case in the future that having reduced R below 1, having reduced national restrictions, we may see a specific upsurge in specific areas which will require specific regional measures.’
But he added: ‘We are going to review it on December 2 but we will always be driven by what the data shows.’
Mr Gove said it would be ‘foolish’ to predict what would happen with the pandemic over the next four weeks.
A reminder that the first lockdown in England and Wales probably took more lives than it allegedly ‘saved’. Click to enlarge
‘With a virus this malignant, and with its capacity to move so quickly, it would be foolish to predict with absolute certainty what will happen in four weeks’ time, when over the course of the last two weeks its rate, its infectiousness and its malignancy have grown,’ he said.
‘And so therefore of course we will review what requires to be done but we have a clear plan over the next four-week (period) to support the economy and to protect the NHS.’
Mr Give defended Mr Johnson’s U-turn from resisting a lockdown to ordering it, saying that is was based on data from the past two weeks.
And he said that without it, ‘by the first week in December the NHS will be full’, including to non-Covid patients.
Appearing on the same programme, CBI chief Dame Carolyn Fairbairn said that the new lockdown was a ‘body blow’ for firms and demanded they be allowed to open as much as possible.
Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer this morning said Labour would back the lockdown restrictions in a vote on Wednesday. But he blasted the delay in introducing it.
He told the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show: ‘On the day that Sage recommended a circuit-break, the daily death rate was 11, yesterday it was 326, so there’s a very human cost to this, but the measures are necessary.’
He said that unless test and trace was drastically improved, December 2 would be ‘a review date, not an end date’.
Last night Mr Johnson was forced to unveil the new lockdown at a hurriedly-arranged press conference yesterday, after sources told the Daily Mail about the plans hours after the Quad committee meeting.
The measures come into force from midnight on Thursday morning until December 2, and close all but essential shops, restaurants, pubs, hairdressers and leisure centres.
The furlough scheme that pays workers 80% of their wages will be extended for a month, and travel outside the UK will be allowed only for ‘work’.
Mr Johnson said it was the the only way to avert bleak Sage predictions of 85,000 deaths this winter, which would force doctors to choose between saving Covid sufferers and those with other illnesses.
‘No responsible PM can ignore the message of those figures. We’ve got to be humble in the face of nature,’ he said.
As England braces for a second national lockdown:
- Some furious Tory MPs threatened to shoot down the PM’s new shutdown in a crunch vote in the Commons;
- Backbenchers accused Boris Johnson of being ‘bounced’ into lockdown and compared Covid to ‘Suez’;
- Keir Starmer called for an immediate national lockdown as he said delaying until Thursday would cost lives;
- Stunned hospitality chiefs warned that new Covid-19 restrictions would spell doom for dying industry;
- Johnson will bring in the Army to help roll out ‘rapid tests’ which will see ‘whole cities’ tested within days
- Graphs that show how all models of the coronavirus second wave predict the number of deaths will exceed SAGE’s ‘worst cases scenario’ were shown by government advisers at the press conference
- The UK recorded 326 deaths within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19 and 21,915 lab-confirmed cases;
- The National Education Union called for schools and colleges to be shut as part of the lockdown;
- Health Minister said government could only have predicted need for a second lockdown with ‘crystal ball’;
- Number of virus patients in hospital has doubled in the past fortnight, with 10,708 patients being treated;
Are they getting desperate?
Very important – don’t take the Covid PCR test https://defending-gibraltar.net/t/beware-of-the-covid-1984-pcr-test-your-life-depends-upon-it/841
No one is allowed to leave gulag Britain for a month…come on,this has really got out of hand…this is a totalitarian state by the backdoor….its a bloody outrage….
Why is it an outrage….well,just for example,third world fake refugees ARE STILL ALLOWED TO ENTER THE COUNTRY….many of whom will be carrying other contagious diseases like tuberculosis……
Currently the media is portraying Boris Johnstein as being coerced into putting Britain into lockdown….ABSOLUTE BS…….
NOTHING short of a full scale civil rebellion will change a thing…..short of a food shortage that is….
BUT IT HAS ONLY JUST STARTED AS THE FULL IMPLICATIONS OF SHUTTING DOWN THE ECONOMY HAS YET TO STRIKE.
(where are the reports of a raging epidemic breaking out in the third world…..since they lack functioning health systems…..
Recall the growing Yellow Jackets uprising in France…KILLED STONE DEAD and saving the Rothschild frontman Macrons bacon in the process…how fortuitous….like hell.
People who washed their hands of Alex Jones could have saved themselves a lot of time. He gives information like this fast and soon, and without him you will not understand Trump.
An in-depth criminal investigation is well overdue to root out and expose all the traitors in govt and SAGE who have been fooling the public with doctored data. Scare-mongering by manipulating the factual science is not going to stop while these criminals remain in power, corrupt media included!
THICK BRITS – the most tv-addicted populace on Planet Earth! – getting ALL that they DESERVE for being so DAMN DUMB!!!
The Christmas holiday and spending has been neutered anyway, but if we’re locked down over Christmas I’ll view this as an attack on Christianity. I say that as someone who isn’t religious but I am spiritual – I believe the pagans were closer to the truth – but this may well become a spiritual battle between Christianity and Satanism.
The problem I see is if Christianity wins we could become more fundamentalist as a result. More Puritan. A bit better than being under Satanism for sure, but the many thousands killed by the Crusaders, Inquisitors and witch-hunters would tell us, “Not much better.”
Just invent a hoax virus & concoct phony case/death statistics in your Judeo-Marxist mass media networks & you can enslave any nation. Terrorize the goyim until they’ve had enough & yearn for the nanotech ‘vaccine’.
When a cabal of mongrel malignant Jews control everything (banks, media, hospitals, schools, government) you can do anything.
Welcome to the Jewocracy.
So far they have effectively shut down Remembrance Day. We now know why the BBC made their Presenters take off their Poppies a few days ago. It has now become the symbol of Racism and White Supremacy. They’ve been working on Christmas for a while, with the “Santa is a Paedo” narrative. Meanwhile, we celebrate The Day of the Dead.
“Health Minister said government could only have predicted need for a second lockdown with ‘crystal ball’;” – Really? I should have loaned him mine. Or he should have asked Bill Gates.
Covid-21 anyone? They will keep this up for as long as we let them get away with it.
THERE IS NO LOCK-DOWN, Stop saying it. Make them lock you down by personal physical force–see how far they get. “Lockdown” is just a word in the mouth of a verminous government functionary.
The end game is total demoralization.
Change my Mind.
Is The Corona Pandemic A Crime Against Humanity?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9f29LKCqF8
Some excellent comments here.
As for the NHS, the hospitals are effectively shut down already, leaving plenty of time and empty space in what were once wards for the “overworked” staff to make those dance videos.
Worse, now known as an essential part of the medical mafia, they’ve CAUSED far more deaths than lives saved, both by deliberately killing people and by withholding treatment.
Clap (the clap) for the NHS? Yes, and every other disease known to man.
LET the NHS collapse, take the money out of harmful, vastly overpriced “treatments” and perhaps at last we’ll get REAL medicine.
Far from being the solution, the NHS has shown itself to be the MOST lethal part of this entire scam-demic.
Cut, burn, poison. Whatever happened to Natural remedies? Oh yes, they were banned when Rockefeller took over funding.
I accept that many individuals within the NHS are driven by a desire to help others, but the organisation itself is rotten and needs to die a natural death, unlike many of it’s victims.
Borass Johnstein “said that expert information showed that without it, the NHS nationally would be ‘full’ by the first week of December,” “EXPERT” information, eh? Like from whom, lying incompetent hacks like Ferguson?
Johnstein further stated, “With a virus this malignant, and with its capacity to move so quickly, it would be foolish to predict with absolute certainty what will happen in four weeks’ time, when over the course of the last two weeks its rate, its infectiousness and its malignancy have grown.” Borass was, of course, talking about the ruling class and government as the malignant “virus”.
“The UK recorded 326 deaths within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19 and 21,915 lab-confirmed cases.” Wow, a whole 326 deaths out of 22,000 imbeciles who were dumb enough to subject themselves to a scientifically fraudulent test. 326 deaths….that’s nothing, probably lower than the average death rate over a month’s time. And, of course, 325 and a half of those 326 people actually died from other serious health issues rather than from covid, but whose counting? Hell, where I am, if someone was mauled by a bear? Covid. Hit by a train? Covid. A piano falls off a roof and lands on their head? Covid. 500 pounds, morbidly obese, crippling heart disease and a failing liver, and has a habit of trying to swallow whole billiard balls? Covid, of course.
Englishmen! If your criminal government and unelected medical tyrants try to foist any more major indignities upon you, continue with this shameless act of terrorism, you best make a stand while you still can.